Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hominy." Across the state to the west, in land long known as "hog 'n hominy country," Chemstrand's $85 million nylon plant at Pensacola was in commercial production, would soon be turning out 50 million Ibs. of yarn a year. Eight pulp and paper plants were producing at the rate of $230 million a year, having boosted capacity 50% in the past two years alone. Soon to go into production: an $18 million cellulose plant owned by Procter & Gamble...
...traditional way is to take $5,000,000, reconstruct downtown Bagdad in the outskirts of Las Vegas, hire three leading historians to supply the facts and six writers to grind them to a proper pulp, buy at least four big names for the marquee, get rolling with a colossal publicity campaign, and then hope that people will rush to see the picture before their friends tell them...
...with razors; four gangsters were shot down in a columnist's living room; a bartender was murdered in his own saloon, and a small boy was killed by a drunken hit & run driver. A few victims survived, including the two teen-agers who were only beaten to a pulp, and the woman in the flimsy nightgown who was mauled by masked intruders in her bedroom, and the engraver who was shot through his working hand...
Space Patrol. In Detroit, suing for divorce, Mrs. Sylvia Skolski charged that her husband Thomas had become "obsessed with the idea that space ships will land on earth. He reads pulp magazines and comic books for hours, excluding me from his company...
...Russians have held out the lure of East-West trade to Europe, but the sweet talk has always contained more saccharin than sugar. For the last seven years France has signed an annual trade treaty with Russia's satellite, Czechoslovakia, exchanging phosphates and machinery for pottery, wood pulp and coal-tar products. The pacts have not worked out well. In 1951 the Czechs and French exchanged only 60% of the agreed quota, and last year the figure was down...